Projects
ANID · FONDEF IDeA

GEMA: smart energy management for microgrids with storage

A system that learns each user’s generation and consumption patterns and decides when to store, use or export solar energy to the grid.

Objective

Purpose

To refine and deploy an optimal energy management system for photovoltaic systems with storage, on-grid or off-grid, serving a few users such as a home or small business. Combining predictive and prescriptive analytics, the system maximises economic and social benefits and makes distributed generation and storage more profitable.

Facts

Data
InstrumentFONDEF IDeA, ANID
PartnersMetric Arts EY · MiroSolar · Impacto Renovable · Victron Energy · Agrosuper
AreasMicrogrids · Storage · Prescriptive analytics

Results

Milestones
  1. 2020-2021Development and pilotsWork with solar energy and data science companies and industrial users.
  2. 2022Closure and patentThe project closed with a patent protecting the intellectual property developed.

Team

UAI · CENTRA
Carlos Silva
Carlos SilvaResearcher
Tito Homem-de-Mello
Tito Homem-de-MelloResearcher

Led by Rodrigo Carrasco. Gonzalo Ruz and Jocelyn Olivari (UAI) and Francisco Jara (UDP) also took part.

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